Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love
Author:   Deirdre Johnson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367105815


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Deirdre Johnson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367105815


ISBN 10:   0367105810
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface , Introduction , A Quest for Meaning: The Different Narratives to Describe the Phenomenon of Falling in Love , (A) What we have been: the first love affair , The psychoanalytic discourse: emphasizing the intrapersonal , The relational psychologies discourse: including the interpersonal , (B) What we are: embodied beings , The scientific discourse , (C) What we may be: individuation , The teleological discourse , The religious discourse , Love's Alchemy: Putting It All Together , Various dualisms and their synthesis , Holistic love: what difference does all of this make?

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"""What is love? Since neither philosophers, psychotherapists, even biologists, can provide a complete answer, do not expect Deirdre Johnson's book to do so. But that is what I love about it. Drawing upon a host of psychotherapeutic, literary and other sources, the author demonstrates in her theme precisely what she describes in her final words: .."".love is more than any feeling; more than sexual attraction or primal instinct; more even than the longing of the soul for the divine. It is all these things and also more. It will always remain ineffable, but, as Eros, it manifests as an indefinable energy that binds our disparate inner selves into a coherent whole, that binds each individual self to society, and hat binds humanity to the universe that we inhabit'. ""--Michael Jacobs, author of Psychodynamic Counselling in Action, Shakespeare on the Couch and Our Desire of Unrest"


What is love? Since neither philosophers, psychotherapists, even biologists, can provide a complete answer, do not expect Deirdre Johnson's book to do so. But that is what I love about it. Drawing upon a host of psychotherapeutic, literary and other sources, the author demonstrates in her theme precisely what she describes in her final words: .. .love is more than any feeling; more than sexual attraction or primal instinct; more even than the longing of the soul for the divine. It is all these things and also more. It will always remain ineffable, but, as Eros, it manifests as an indefinable energy that binds our disparate inner selves into a coherent whole, that binds each individual self to society, and hat binds humanity to the universe that we inhabit'. --Michael Jacobs, author of Psychodynamic Counselling in Action, Shakespeare on the Couch and Our Desire of Unrest


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